Low Tower - Some of

Low Tower - Some of my friends - these'd be friends on the far left of the DFL and a few Greens - bloviate about what a fabulous guy Jim Hightower is. They were the same ones who swore Hightower's talk show would push Limbaugh off the air, about five years ago, but I digress.

Hightower attacks the notion of the liberal media:

"Liberal Media" my butt! The true bias of the barons who control virtually all of the mass media is not to the left or even to the right, but to the top... to their own corporate class. The so-called "news" we get is filtered through the media's corporate lenses and tinted to a nice, rosey corporate hue. Indeed, revealed by the diligent watchdog group called PR Watch, it turns out that many of the "news stories" we see on television are actually nothing but video feeds from corporations with something to sell.

Y'know, I'll give Hightower this much: there's a point in there. The media is most loyal to "the establishment" of which it's a part.

Now - someone please show me where the major media have come down on the right side of, say, gun control? Abortion? Tax cuts? Contraceptives in schools?

After years of asking, I await Mr. Hightower's answer - or that of any of his supporters - on that question.

Posted by Mitch at January 30, 2003 10:23 AM